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Jack Kirby Panel Event: Hail to the King!
Posted: July 12, 2011
Jason Atomic, inspired artist and curator of the excellent tribute exhibition Hail to the King!: Artists Pay Tribute to Jack Kirby, originally shown at The Resistance Gallery and currently showing till July 31st at Orbital Comics Gallery, has invited me to host a free panel discussion on the art, life and legacy of ‘The King of Comics’.
Joining Jason and I will be special guests: acclaimed American critic Charles Hatfield, contributor to The Jack Kirby Collector and author of a major new study, Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, out next February from University of Mississippi Press; David Hine, creator of the gripping Strange Embrace and writer for Marvel, DC, Radical and for Image the inspired Bulletproof Coffin with Shaky Kane; Ilya, artist, writer, novelist, mangaka, published in the UK, US, France and Japan; Mike Lake, co-founder of Forbidden Planet and Titan Books and Kirby collector and connoisseur; and Garry Leach, Marvelman artist, illustrator extraordinaire and lender of some choice Kirby’s original comics pages on Orbital’s walls.
Come and link hands, shout ‘Taaru!’ and summon The Infinity Man himself, Jack Kirby. Read more about ‘The King Of Comics’ here on this very website!
Tickets: Free!
Where: Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
When: Friday 29 July 2011 - From 7pm
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